Teen Age Girls

The body of a teen-age girl was found dumped alongside La Tuna Canyon Road early Thursday morning, Los Angeles police said. The remains of the girl, whose identity remained unknown Thursday, were spotted by motorists on La Tuna Canyon about half a mile west of the Foothill Freeway, said LAPD Detective Frank Bishop of the Foothill Division. There were no obvious signs of trauma to her body.

A Brentwood teen-ager has been selected as a semifinalist in Teen magazine's 1995 Miss Teenage America contest. Wendi Glodery, 15, was among 40 teen-age girls chosen to compete for a spot in the final competition scheduled for March in New York City. Twelve contestants will take part in the finals. Glodery, a sophomore at Palisades High School, hopes to pursue an acting career. Miss Teenage America was established in 1961 to recognize "outstanding young women between the ages of 13 and 18."

Homemade cakes shaped like reindeer and snowmen lined the kitchen counter, waiting to be delivered to two disadvantaged families. * With the roundness of her eight-month pregnancy showing, an energetic Staci, 18, and a dozen other teen-age girls loaded Christmas trees, food baskets and gifts into a van bound for the two families.

A 20-year-old Anaheim man was sentenced Friday to 146 years in prison for his part in gang rapes of two teen-age girls at a community center. Gilbert De La Cruz, one of four suspected Anaheim gang members charged in the rapes, sat without visible emotion as Superior Court Judge Richard L. Weatherspoon announced the sentence. De La Cruz will be eligible for parole at the age of 92. Members of his family sobbed in the courtroom. The victims were not present.

Javonna Clark arrived at Expressly Portraits at the Fox Hills Mall in Culver City in a brown baby-doll dress, eager to receive the free beauty makeover she had won in a store drawing. Like other 17-year-olds enthralled with the idea of looking glamorous for a day, Clark giggled girlishly as the store's makeup artist painted her lips ruby red and rolled her hair in curls that fell seductively against her face.

The case report describes the victim as a male Caucasian. His age is noted as 35+. Height is 73 inches. Weight is 182 pounds. Brown hair, brown eyes. A mustache. The form asks the investigator to choose among four types of death: NAT, ACC, SUI and HOMI. There's a circle around SUI. There was never a doubt. Witnesses first spotted him on Sept. 4 at the intersection of 3rd Street East and Lightcap Street in Lancaster.

You're a high school sophomore. You haven't even been on a date yet. But suddenly your classmates are looking at you funny. Sometimes they laugh, sometimes they say rude things. Then you hear that there's a stall in the boys' bathroom covered with graffiti, and it's all about you. You don't understand. You haven't done anything . And no one, not the school counselor or the principal, will help you. For Minnesotan Katy Lyle, that scenario was all too real.

In a city that, like Los Angeles, is so often numbed by the exploits of ruthless gang murderers, the saga of Robert Sandifer was sadly familiar--except for his tender age. The object of a three-day police hunt, Robert was the suspect in the shooting death of one teen-ager and the wounding of two others. He was found early Thursday, a murder victim himself. His body lay face down under a viaduct, shot in the back of the head. Robert Sandifer was 11 years old.

A rapist broke into two homes in quiet neighborhoods early Thursday and attacked a 21-year-old woman in one and a 14-year-old girl in the other as they slept. But the teen-ager was able to fend off her attacker, authorities said. In both assaults, the suspect, identified as a black man between 25 and 30 years old with short-cropped hair, entered the single-family homes through rear doors, said Los Angeles Police Detective Mel Arnold.

A 16-year-old girl was shot in the eye and killed Wednesday by a teen-age male friend in the kitchen of a Thousand Oaks condominium, authorities said. Police said they did not know what prompted the boy to shoot Jacqueline Ann Reay of Thousand Oaks at point-blank range in the 3 p.m. incident. The girl was treated at the scene and transported to Los Robles Regional Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.